that is not correct feel
free to person buried her and not listed, just anything:

click
on doggie to email me direct.
Thanks!

This cemetery NEEDS
DESPERATELY
TO BE restored
it is in very bad shape. It is on the located on land adjoining
farm ground owned by David hawkinson. David was kind of enough to let my
daughter Kate and I visit the cemetery today to photograph the tombstones and
also to see the shape it is in. I asked him about restoring it and
He said he wished somebody would. He has tried to cut down a few trees and spays
weed killer in it every year but doesn't have time to mess with it with all the
farm ground he takes care of. This will be a cemetery on my list
with Illinois Saving Graves.

I am going
to call this cemetery the GUM CEMETERY. It was originated on the Reverend
Jacob Gum homestead on section 30 Henderson Township, Knox County, IL.
Rev. Jacob Gum was married to Rhoda Bell and they were the parents of when he
came up from Kentucky

This Old Gum Cemetery, as I
like to refer to it, can be located taking IL state Route #150 north out
of Galesburg, IL, headed towards Woodhull. When you come to the road
sign 2000N which is a cross roads turn Right. It's not far out of
Galesburg, IL. By the Knox County Platt map it's the first crossroads. You
turn right/east and then go down to the next house which is David
Hawkinson Farm. I stopped and talked to him and he took my daughter,
Kate & I the rest of the way. You just go past his house a bit and
the corn field in the middle you see a water way. and not far a graveled
entrance that goes into the field. You turn here North and follow the
water way down so far and then stop. Kate and I had to walk up over
a field of alpha, I believe it was and then down a hill and up another
short hill and half way up this there is a grove of trees which is fence
in. The cemetery is located in this grove of trees. The dates
on the photos are wrong. Kate and I took them yesterday on Friday,
August 05, 2005. You can click on any of the photos for a bigger view.
Took all in both black & white and then again in color; the tombstones we
could find and locate. Have done this cemetery with the photos and then
put their information below that. Have matched up tombstones with
appropriate footstones if available. This cemetery really need some
help. We also found some tombstones that were missed by the Knox County
Genealogical Society when they read it.

To better view the photos click
on them they open in own windows

Made a little smaller for easier
downloading.

If you have any information on
the person buried in this cemetery I would like to hear from you.
Plus, and this is a big Plus+ would like to hear from relatives so I can
get some help on getting this cemetery put back to rights. This is
one of the oldest cemeteries in Knox County, IL, and to me it should not
look like this. Just think of yourselves when you have been buried
for over a hundred years and how you would like your cemetery and
tombstones to look like. There is history here being lost.

Help! Help! Help!

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This Cemetery is very much
in need of some help. If you would care to donate your time,
donations to help with repairs, have family buried here, or anything
you could do to help in the renovocation of this cemetery either
click on my doggie to email me or write me at

Foxie Hagerty
RR #2 Box 63
1635 Sherwood Road
Dahinda, IL 61428

Anything you can do to help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks for your time.

I
have since found out from a family member that the land for the cemetery
was given to the people of Log City and laid out so they would have have
a place to bury their loved ones. This information was obtained
from John Gum. He is a direct descendant of John Bell Cassandra
Dills Gum. John Bell Gum being the son of Rev. Jacob Gum and Rhoda
Bell who was from Germany. John is also a direct descendant of
John Montgomery and Minerva Gum his wife. John
Gum is looking for Gum relatives. So, if you happen to fall on to
this web site and find this page. Please email me so I can have
him get in touch with you. John doesn't own a computer and says he
is too old to learn. Thanks

May 06, 2006 Spring photos of the Gum Cemetery when
Foxie, great-nephew, Jorden, & daughter, Kate walked from the road to
the cemetery. New photos below older ones.

This is standing at the entrance looking north

This is standing in the southwest corner

looking southeast

This is standing at not far from entrance

looking southwest.

this is standing where all the tombstones

are in the above left photo looking west

Standing by fence looking south west.

Farm in background is David's

This is Kate standing in the cemetery.

Always take one of her there. Black & white

took photos in both except for this one.

Thought I had it turned off.

Looking at William Reynolds Tombstone in

Northern part of cemetery by tree

Telephoto view of William's tombstone

Kate & Jorden stand'n in entrance

just
before we leave.

Look'n at Cemetery through entrance

Color Photo

Black & White

Their Footstones

Catherine J. Arnold

dau. of John & Mary Arnold

Died February o9, 1869

Age 20 yrs 1mo. 5das.

same tombstone

new
photos below, dug up by Kate w/ Jorden's help.

photographed by Foxie

This photo taken May 09, 2006

James W. Arnold son of John & Mary S. died
June 09, 1851 Age 1yr 5 mo 5 da

Broken stone lying by tree just

inside of the Cemetery

Flora M. Gum

daughter of I. & M.
Gum

died March 29, 1875 AE 6wks

Mary Froman wife of

Jacob died Oct. -1835 AE 60 yrs

also suppose to be another tombstone with Martha 1856

Joseph Fuqua

Jan. 16, 1830 AE 52 yrs 5 mo

Also
suppose to be a tombstone for his son

Obadiah E.
died September 1842 AE 1year 8mo

Don't know if this
was there to mark this fellows last resting place or for someone
else. It's a little bigger than a regular footstone and real thick
and made out of concrete.

stones are lying against a tree. not his
footstone by the tombstone in the photo on the right.

Jonathan C. Jr son of J. C. & A. M.
Reed

died can't read is buried in the ground. This
stone is also lying against a tree.

Oliver Shepard of D. & M.

Died February 17, 1874 Age 17yr 10 mo

Can't read

James W. Arnold's footstone not

with his headstone. and other one

might be his brother's not sure.

C C on footstone

nobody with name on other

tombstones to match up

Arnold, Isaac M. son of J. & M. S. died May 04, 1857 Age 2yrs 22da

Kate & I did not find his tombstone (yet)

Photo on left we couldn't get to this
one with all the debris around

the tombstone or footstone.

Rev. Jacob Rhoda Bell Gum

1st to preach the Gospel in Knox
County, IL.

These two tombstones are no longer in the Gum
Cemetery. Rev. Gum came to Knox

County, IL, in 1827 with his family and bought land
around where the this cemetery now lies abandoned' where his wife
buried him here on his land and then she was laid beside her.
The Graves are now unmarked; unless the footstones are still there.
They were moved at the request of family members on account of the
condition of the cemetery and no one to take care of or wanting to
take of it. Rev Jacob Gum also has ties with Abraham Lincoln.

Foxie's Findings: When the tombstones were moved to another cemetery in
Knox County, the bodies were left here, they are buried by Flora
Gum, their granddaughter. This was done by; considered right
on account of the person in question was a regent for the local DAR
Chapter in Galesburg, IL, and a descendant of Rev. Jacob Gum and his
wife Rhoda Bell Gum; which doesn't make right or easy for future
descendants to prove where their last resting place is; when
the records for this cemetery are missing, no record of tombstones
being moved to the current cemetery, local DAR Chapter refuses to
furnish any information on this matter to me or descendants, nothing
was otherwise recorded that we can find anywhere. This is suppose to
be noted in cemetery records, courthouses, and also posted in the
cemeteries. Which it is not, if you care to trek out to this
cemetery you find that out for yourself and also the very poor
condition it is in. Let me hear from you out there so we can
do something to clean up this cemetery and save a part of Knox
County's History.

I
have since found out from a family member that the land for the
cemetery was given to the people of Log City and laid out so they
would have have a place to bury their loved ones. This
information was obtained from John Gum. He is a direct
descendant of John Bell Cassandra Dills Gum. John Bell Gum
being the son of Rev. Jacob Gum and Rhoda Bell who was from Germany.
John is also a direct descendant of John Montgomery and Minerva Gum
his wife. John Gum is looking for Gum
relatives. So, if you happen to fall on to this web site and
find this page.

Please email me so I can have him get in touch
with you. John doesn't own a computer and says he is too old
to learn. Thanks.

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LOVE To forgive him,
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